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Announcement of 2016 OIE Photo Competition Winners

Today, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has released the results of its Photo competition by announcing eight winners. Launched in March and dubbed “Animal welfare beyond the cliché”, the competition sought to provide entrants from all over the world, the opportunity to showcase their photographic abilities pertaining to the implementation of the OIE animal welfare standards.

Paris, 13 May 2016 – This year the competition was open to the OIE Global Network and veterinary students from all over the world, and with ten prizes up for grabs, the interest was bound to be high. All too often the work carried out by animal welfare players is downplayed and with the rise in denunciations of practices in animal production, several shocking images depicting poor welfare conditions are proliferated. The judges were therefore looking for photographs which best illustrate, both from an artistic and a descriptive point of view, the work carried out by animal welfare players, in particular by Veterinary services both in their public and private components, to promote and protect animal welfare worldwide in the context of the OIE welfare standards’ implementation.

The OIE received numerous applications from all regions of the world. After serious deliberation, under strict anonymous conditions, the jury, composed of Dr Monique Eloit, OIE Director General, Dr Frédéric Decante, veterinarian and press photographer and Dr Leopoldo Stuardo, OIE Welfare Project Officer and photographer, evaluated the photographs which best demonstrated the understanding of OIE’s standards in the field of animal welfare and were aesthetically appealing and artistically captivating. They unanimously selected the following winners:

OIE GLOBAL NETWORK

REGION

PHOTOGRAPH

PHOTOGRAPHER

COUNTRY

Africa

Disease surveillance

Dr Christo Labuschagne

South Africa

Americas

Thank you for travelling with us, it was a pleasure serving you

Eng. Miguel Espinosa

Mexico

Asia&Pacific

First step

Dr Ulaankhuu Ankhanbaatar

Mongolia

Europe

Complicity and mutual affection

Dr Jorge Bacelar

Portugal

Middle East

No comment

Dr Mozafar Sarmasti

Iran

VETERINARY STUDENTS

REGION

PHOTOGRAPH

PHOTOGRAPHER

COUNTRY

Americas

A special bond between a student and a teaching animal

Ms Ginger Hobgood

United States of America

Asia&Pacific

Stray. Non-stop bleeding. Saved him and gave him a chance.

Ms Chayada Piantham

Thailand

Europe

Antibodies in milk form

Ms Filipa Trigo da Roza

Portugal

Unfortunately, no complete student entry was received from Africa and the Middle East.